Vegetable-slicer.



- No. 853,796. PATENTED MAY 14, 1907 We inane:

U. A. IMES & H. A. SKILLIN. I

VEGETABLE SLIGER.

.APPLIOATION 31mm SEPT. 12. 1005. RENEWED 2030.13, 1906.

(lune; Una Allen 1mm.

Hflfll'fl AS/dllin UNITED STATES UNA ALLEN IMES AND IIATTIE A.

SKILLIN, OF AMES, COLORADO. I

VEGETABLE-SLICER.

I Application filed September 12, 1905.

To 11,7] who/1 ir' 'IIMIILI/ con/earn:

' Be it known that we, UNA ALLENIMEs and Harri a A. SKILIJN, citizens ofthe United This invention relates to vegetable slicers being designedespecially for slicing potatoes and has for its objects to produce acomparatively simple, inexpensive. device of this character in which thepotato will at a single operation be cut into slices of a uniform size,

' one wl-ierein the pressure head will conform readily to the materialunder treatment and to the movements of the operating lever, and one inwhich the slicing members may be conveniently interchangedfor producingslices of varying sizes.

With these and other objects in View, the invention comprises the novelfeatures of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanyingdrawings: Figure 1. is a longitudinal section throughthe center ot the device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view partly insection of the jointconnection between the plunger rod and plunger.Figs. 3, 4 and 5am plan views of the slicing members. .lteferring to thedr. wings, 1 designates a body portion or ring provided between its endswith an internal horizontally projecting marginal flange 2, there beingattached to the body 1 preferably at opposed points, a

handle 3 and a vertically uprising bearing member or arm 4 to the upperend of which is pivoted one end of an operating lever 5 equipped at itsother or free end with a hand piece 6 and pivoted between its ends tothe upper. end of a plunger rod or stem 7, the normally lower end ofwhich is provided with a socket 8 preferably of the form as seen in Fig.2.

Removably seated in-the body mefmberl and resting at its lower end uponthe flange 2 is a tubular receptacle or cup 9 designed to receivematerial to be sliced and in which there is arranged a movable 'pressuremember or head 10 of substantially semi-spherical form presenting a flatnormally lower face and provided with a projecting portion or stem 11Specification of Letters Patent,

PatentedMay l4, 1907.

Renewed December 13, 1.906. Serial No. 347,696.

having at its upper end a'redueed portion or nipple 12 shaped to conformto and .designed to seat snugly in the socket 8, it being noted in thisconnection that the jointformed by the nipple fitting in the socketpermits radial movement of the plunger rod 7 with the lever 5'.

Screwed into the lower portion of the body 1 is a knife carrier or ring13 designed to bear at its upper edge against the flange 2 and providedat its outer edge with a horizontal marginal flange 14 adapted to begrasped for screwing the ring in place, there being fixed in said ring aSlurality of cutting knives or blades 15 which as seen in F gs. 3 and 4are arranged in spaced parallel relation and adapted for cutting apotato or the like in suitable slices. It is to be noted in thisconnection that the blades in Fig. 4 are spaced a greater distance apartthan in Fig. 3v for thus cutting slices of greater thickness, while inFig. 5 the blades are'shown as intersecting each other for cutting thevegetable in strips.

In ractice, the material to be sliced is place( in the receptacle 9 overthe blades 15 which constitute albottom for the receptacle. The operatorthen moves the free end of lever 5 downward thus causing the plunger 10to force the Vegetable or material from the receptacle between theblades 15, whereby it is cut into stri s or slices. 1 It may bementioned that t 1e device will be equipped with a plurality of themembers or rings 13 in which the blades are differently arranged andthat these rin s may be readily interchanged for effecting esiredchanges in the sizes or shsipe of the slices of material.

rom the foregoing it is apparent that there is produced a comparativelysimple, inexpensive device admirably adapted for the attainment of theends in view, it being understood that minor changes in the detailsherein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

In a device of the class described, an annular body portion providedwith a handle and an uprising bearing arm, an open ended r'eceptaclehaving one end thereof seated in said body ortion, a plunger movablyarranged in t 1e receptacle and having a stem,

an operating lever pivoted at one end in the In testimony whereof, weaflix our signabearing arm and provided between its ends tures inpresence of two witnesses.

with a stem operatively and detachablyen- UNA ALLEN IMES.

gaged with the first named stem, at rin IIATTIE A. SKILLIN. 5 tappedinto the body portion beneath the ad- Witnesses:

j'acent end of the receptacle and cutting ETHEL M. BARIL,

blades sustained in the ring. CHRISTINA M00011:

